Cardinal Donald Wuerl has announced that Pope Benedict XVI will establish an ordinariate for American Anglicans who wish to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church. Two Anglican communities--one in Texas, the other in Maryland--have entered into full communion in recent months and are expected to become part of the ordinariate.Read the rest at the link.
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The US ordinariate will be established on January 1, and “at that time, I assume that an Ordinary will be named,” Cardinal Wuerl said at the fall meeting of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. “If the Ordinary of the new Ordinariate is married, then he can be ordained a priest, but not a bishop.”
“From its erection, an Ordinariate will have the option of using the Roman Missal or the Book of Divine Worship already used by the Pastoral Provision or Anglican Use parishes,” Cardinal Wuerl added.
Blessings on the journey to the American Anglicans who will enter the Roman Catholic ordinariate. The members of the group may be able to continue to use their Book of Divine Worship, but methinks they will no longer be Anglicans, but rather Roman Catholic converts.
I wonder what present members of the Roman Catholic Church who don't like the new liturgy for the mass will think about the 'Anglicans' being privileged to use a different liturgy. Will Roman Catholics who do not like the new mass be given the privilege to use the Book of Divine Worship, if they so choose?
And then there's the matter of the RC priests who remain under the obligation of celibacy, who may be disgruntled that the 'Anglican' priests have their wives and families.
Thanks to Ann V. for the link.